I live in a place where I have to drive two hours to the city to buy paneer cheese when I start craving palak paneer. That is, if one of the six or seven health foods shops I frequent even have paneer cheese in stock. If I drive south twenty miles and endure an hour …
So far on this trip I have survived cyclones, Lyme Disease, cobras and crossing the street by myself. Welcome to Bangalore! Why yes, I am a thirty six years old and I can now say I can cross the street by myself! It took me four days of city life in Bangalore to get the …
It was Christmas time 2016 and we wanted to experience the holiday season somewhere hot and humid where we would not stop sweating for days. Let’s go to tropical Kerala India! Who does not need a tropical beach vacation sipping beer cocktails poolside during the hustle and bustle of the holiday season? We left our …
This past Sunday morning I felt like we walked out the front door of our apartment and into the set of a Bollywood movie. The early morning air was pulsing with the beat of India street festival music. This was my second morning in India and I had assumed I would be hesitant and intimidated to walk …
I love everything about traveling. Some people may be annoyed and stressed out over thirty hours of travel to reach the other side of the world but I see every part of travel as a new adventure waiting to happen. If I never left my snowy mountain home I would have far fewer adventures. I …